Emanuel Fohn

Emanuel Fohn (born March 26, 1881 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , † December 14, 1966 in Bozen ) was an Austrian painter , restorer and art collector.

Life

Emanuel Fohn broke off his law studies to become a painter and attended a private painting school in Vienna . Because of his support from Hugo Darnaut , Fohn was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Angelo Jank and Hugo von Habermann . After a long stay in Dachau , Fohn studied with Lovis Corinth in Berlin . He became a teacher at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , went to Spain from 1923 to 1925 and then back to Munich . Frequent trips followed from 1932, including to Venice and Paris , a year in southern France and during the Nazi period from 1933 to 1943 a stay in Rome . From 1943 Fohn lived in Castelrotto in South Tyrol .

Together with his wife Sophie he created an art collection that included works from the 18th and 19th centuries. After the National Socialist regime in the German Reich removed numerous works of pictures classified as degenerate art from its museums, the Fohns were able to acquire and save many such works of art cheaply that did not meet the requirements of so-called German art .

Parts of the Sophie and Emanuel Fohn collection were donated to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in 1964 . In addition, after the death of her husband, Sophie Fohn set up the Emanuel and Sophie Fohn Scholarship Foundation to support highly talented students from Austria and South Tyrol.

Emanuel Fohn was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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Emanuel Fohn mainly created light-colored landscapes and vedute in the impressionist tradition. Pictures are in the City Museum of Bozen , the estate in the Tyrolean Provincial Museum Ferdinandeum.

Exhibitions

• Exhibition on the occasion of his 75th birthday , Albertina Graphic Collection , Vienna (1956)
• Memorial exhibition , Carinthian State Gallery , New Gallery of the City of Linz - Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum , Künstlerhaus Salzburg (1969)
• Emanuel Fohn 1881–1966 , Kastelbell Castle (2010)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hannes Obermair : Art, Culture - National Socialism / Arte, cultura - nazionalsocialismo . In: Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (Ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol , Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 30–43, here: p. 40 .
2. ↑ The collection of Sofie and Emanuel Fohn in the Pinakothek der Moderne - there is a fine line between profit and rescue
3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Fohn, Emanuel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 30, 2015)  

literature

• Kurt Martin: The painter Emanuel Fohn . Prestel, Munich 1965.
• Carla Schulz-Hoffmann (Ed.): The Sophie and Emanuel Fohn Collection. A documentation . Hirmer, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7774-5260-2 (artists and works; 11).
• Emanuel Fohn . Exhibition catalog. Kuratorium Schloss Kastelbell, Kastelbell 2010, ISBN 978-88-7073-540-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Emanuel Fohn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Emanuel Fohn in the directory of artistic, scientific and cultural-political bequests in Austria
• Entry on Fohn, Emanuel in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )